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    The surname Currie

    A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 17,234 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C600

    Currie: #2,100 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Currie #2,100, 17,234 people Currie: #2,100 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Currie #2,100, 17,234 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Currie is more common than 98.7% of them.

    Origin

    Scottish Gaelic origin

    * As a Scottish surname, from the place in Edinburgh, possibly from Scottish Gaelic currach (“boggy plain”). * Also as a Scottish surname, from Corrie in Dumfriesshire. * Also as a Scottish surname, Scottish form of Curry, or Anglicized from Mac Mhuirich, see McMurray. * As an English surname, variant of Currey. * As an Arabic surname, Americanized from Khoury, Khouri. Compare Cury, Curry.

    Currie is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 17,234 people named Currie in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 17,915 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 16,627.

    #2,100
    rank among US surnames
    17,234
    people in 2010
    5.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #2,000)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,091Stringer17,30017,847
    #2,092Whitt17,29317,854
    #2,093Eckert17,26917,879
    #2,095McGovern17,25717,891
    #2,096Boykin17,25517,893
    #2,097Saldivar17,25017,898
    #2,098Woodson17,24217,907

    Who is named Currie

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    69% of people named Currie identified as white (not Hispanic), 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 26%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Currie

    Currie has the Soundex code C600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C600.

    Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

    All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Currie come from?
    * As a Scottish surname, from the place in Edinburgh, possibly from Scottish Gaelic currach (“boggy plain”). * Also as a Scottish surname, from Corrie in Dumfriesshire. * Also as a Scottish surname, Scottish form of Curry, or Anglicized from Mac Mhuirich, see McMurray. * As an English surname,…
    How common is the surname Currie?
    17,234 people in the United States had the surname Currie in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 17,915 Americans. It ranked 2,100th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Currie?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Currie identified as white (not Hispanic), and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Currie?
    Currie is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Currie getting more or less common?
    More common. 16,627 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,234 in 2010, up 3.7%.